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Allen Ginsberg class on vividness and close observation in writing - Part 1

by: Ginsberg, Allen

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Publication date: 1982-06-01 00:00:00

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Topics: New American Poetry, beat movement, Buddhism, consciousness and literature

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First half of a class with Allen Ginsberg discussing vividness and close observation in writing, particularly the writers who do it, including Walt Whitman, haiku, Jack Kerouac, Reznikoff, Imagists and William Carlos Williams. Ends with Ginsberg reading a poem that was a partial model for "Howl."(Continues on 86p306B.)